"GREEN" PRACTICES:

Identification of Current Research Trends in the Academic Literature on Environmental Sociology

Project idea


Why "green" practices?

In the Global Risks Report for 2023, the first four positions are occupied by risks related to the environment
[World Economic Forum, 2023].

Focus of programs aimed at achieving sustainable development goals in the field of ecology
is the formation of eco-practices among the population [United Nations, 2023].

Total number of publications on the topic of environmental practices from different scientific fields
increases markedly every year [based on calculations made by the authors over the past 10 years in Scopus
as of the beginning of 2024].

It can be assumed that new connections are emerging between the research subjects and the study conditions.


What do we want to explore?

Question 1. What are the conceptual trends in environmental practices research for 2013–2022?

Question 2. What are the methodological trends in environmental practices research for 2013–2022?

Question 3. Is there the relationship between the types of publications on environmental practices
and the level of academic reputation in the various journals that publish them for 2013–2022?

Question 4. Is there the relationship between the types of publications on environmental practices
and the country of the author's affiliation for 2013–2022?

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Results

Conceptual and methodological trends

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Relationship between journal ratings
and publication types

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Relationship between authors' affiliations
and publication types

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Methodological articles are more often published
in highly rated (Q1-Q2) journals


Publications of all directions (conceptual, methodological and both)
are mainly published in Q1 journals

At the same time, only publications with theoretical contributions
are found in journals of different levels from Q4 to Q1

Authors from most countries focus specifically
on the conceptual study of "green" practices


Of all the analyzed countries of affilations (N = 66), only in 9 countries the authors:

Focus on methodological aspects
(Latvia, Peru)

Try to make theoretical and methodological contributions at the same time
(New Zeland, Nepal, Japan, Egypt, Serbia, UAE and Ethiopia)

What have we discovered?

Question 1. Conceptual solutions used in the study of environmental practices:
theory of planned behavior
, focus on the government context and the process
of knowledge/attitude/behavior formation.

Question 2. Methodological solutions used in the study of environmental practices:
structural equation modeling, focus on a specific country (China) or social group (youth).

Question 3. Methodological articles are published in high-level journals,
conceptual articles are published in journals of various levels.

Question 4. There is no specific relationship between the country of the author's affiliation
and the type of publication they wrote.

Our team

Anastasiia Marchenko
Data Collection and Analysis,
Data Visualization,
Web Communication

Master's Degree in Sociology,
Higher School of Economics

anastasiia.marchenk2@studio.unibo.it

Silje Eriksen
Data Collection and Analysis,
Data Visualization,
Web Communication

Master's Degree in Computer Science,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology

silje.eriksen@studio.unibo.it

Methodology

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